Add the Library Blog to Your Angel Home Page

If you follow these steps, you can keep up with the library blog right in the Angel Virtual Campus.

1. Log in to Angel Virtual Campus with your ITP-assigned logins: http://itp.angellearning.com/
2. On your page, click on Edit Page on the upper left side.
3. Click on Add Components.
4. Checkmark the RSS Headlines option and click Add Selected.
5. Click on the Pencil Icon for the RSS Headlines Section (you will see it once you mouse over the title of the section).
6. Select ITP: Library Research Weblog.
7. For items, choose 1 if you only want to see the most recent post. You can set the number higher if you want to see more posts directly in Angel.
8. Click Okay.

If a post interests you you can click on the post's title and it will take you to the ITP Library's blog where you can explore some more.

Frontal Cortex Blog

Beyond the title, The Frontal Cortex, I don't know how to sum up this brilliant writer's blog; it is about neuroscience, culture, art, technology. He has a way of elegantly explaining Proust and has recently joined Twitter. Quite an interesting site to explore.

Professionalize: Create a Blog of Your Own

Weblogs or "blogs" have become an easy and fun way to publish ideas to the Web. You can publish a short and finite collection of posts to promote your business/career, or you can decide to create a topical or research focus to which you continue to add to daily or weekly. Either way, you are creating something that you can share with others in your professional life.
Here at the library, we have been tremendously happy with Blogger/Blogspot, a free blogging and hosting service owned by Google. There are many more, like Vox.com, typepad.com, and wordpress.com to name a few. The services are either free with ads or very inexpensive.
As a professional resource, think about how this fits your "brand" and your vision for your career, whether clinical, academic or entrepreneurial. You can always decide to upgrade to a more formal site later, start additional blogs for different topics or talents, or delete your blog when it no longer serves its purpose.
Talk to a librarian if you want to learn more about how to get started.

The Committed Parent: Mark Brady's Blog

Dr. Mark Brady, ITP Alum and faculty member, produces an excellent blog on children and neuroscience. The Committed Parent contextualizes the latest developments on development for parents and anyone else who is interested in the richness and complexity of being human.

Manage your Blog Readings

If you want to keep up with blogs and news sites, try using a feed reader. One free and easy-to-use Web-based reader is Bloglines.

What is great about it is that it "keeps" your readings until you are ready to view them, then you can decide to keep them longer by checkmarking the item. The items you don't find interesting just disappear after you view them.

Once you create an account, all you need to do is find the Web address of the blog, or news site feeds. You find the feed Web address link, click on it, then copy and paste it into the reader. You can search right from within Bloglines for feeds. Or try going to your favorite blog, journal site, or news site to find a feed address.

On this site, the Site Feed is on the upper right-hand side.